diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst
index 6bb48e81ef5..48acaf19d6f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/json.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/json.rst
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Encoding basic Python object hierarchies::
 Compact encoding::
 
     >>> import json
-    >>> json.dumps([1,2,3,{'4': 5, '6': 7}], separators=(',',':'))
+    >>> json.dumps([1,2,3,{'4': 5, '6': 7}], separators=(',', ':'))
     '[1,2,3,{"4":5,"6":7}]'
 
 Pretty printing::
diff --git a/Lib/json/__init__.py b/Lib/json/__init__.py
index a746f9cf9c9..6d88931dcbd 100644
--- a/Lib/json/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/json/__init__.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 Compact encoding::
 
     >>> import json
-    >>> json.dumps([1,2,3,{'4': 5, '6': 7}], separators=(',',':'))
+    >>> json.dumps([1,2,3,{'4': 5, '6': 7}], separators=(',', ':'))
     '[1,2,3,{"4":5,"6":7}]'
 
 Pretty printing::